Plant genetic advance could lead to more efficient conversion of plant biomass to biofuels
Friday, January 2, 2015 - 16:00
in Biology & Nature
Plant geneticists including Sam Hazen at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Siobhan Brady at the University of California, Davis, have sorted out the gene regulatory networks that control cell wall thickening by the synthesis of the three polymers, cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin.